Language: English
Published by Grant Richards, London, 1915
Seller: Greenwood Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Dark red cloth binding with gilt lettering and design is faded, stained and bumped. upper edgee of text block is gilt, other sides rough cut, hindges are loose, inside front end paper missing, inside rear end paper torn, some staininging and foxxing, interesting photographs and illustrations.
Published by Strand; 'The New Sport Set' Company Ltd. - 15, Essex Street; 1908-1909., 1909
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Germany
Each some 60(+/-) pages on thick paper with few singleside printed glossy plates (mainly racing-horses). - Publisher's darker-red half-morocco binding over 5 gilt-ornamented slightly raised bands with grained grey panels and leather corners, all edges gilt; lex.-8vo.(ca. 24 x 16,5 x 7,5 cm; ca. 1,5 kg.). *** [Ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF bis Donnerstag, den 14.05.2026 / Expiring SPRING-SALE until Thursday, May 14, 2026: immer noch um fast 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of yet almost 50%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 165,-] --- EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF THE FIRST SERIES OF THE SPORTS-PERIODICAL (mainly on horse-racing). The only proof of its existence is a chapter in 'SHARPS, FLATS, GAMBLERS AND RACEHORSES' by A. Dick Luckman (London 1914) which contains a detailed description of its foundation and progress. - Leatherparts of the binding partly rubbed; A VERY GOOD COPY.